asbru-cm could not be installed in Redhat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7

[nomike]

Installation instructions for Fedora don't work as they say to use sudo dnf install asbru-cm which is not available on RHEL7. yum install asbru-cm says the package is not found.

Downloading the fedora26 RPM and trying to install it manually also fails with

[root@localhost ~]# yum install ./asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch.rpm 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Examining ./asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch.rpm: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
Marking ./asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package asbru-cm.noarch 0:5.0.0~rc4-1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: ftp for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.nextlayer.at
 * epel: mirror.inode.at
 * extras: mirror.nextlayer.at
 * updates: mirror.nextlayer.at
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Crypt::Blowfish) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Crypt::Rijndael) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Crypt::Rijndael) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Expect) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Expect) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gnome2::GConf) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gnome2::GConf) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::AppIndicator) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::List) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::List) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::TiedCommon) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::TiedCommon) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::GladeXML) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::GladeXML) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::SourceView2) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Unique) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Unique) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTTP::Proxy) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Stty) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Tty) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Net::ARP) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Net::ARP) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Socket6) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Socket6) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::Parser) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl-Gnome2-Vte for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: telnet for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: vte for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package asbru-cm.noarch 0:5.0.0~rc4-1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Crypt::Blowfish) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gnome2::GConf) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gnome2::GConf) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::AppIndicator) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::List) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::List) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::TiedCommon) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::TiedCommon) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::GladeXML) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::GladeXML) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::SourceView2) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Unique) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Gtk2::Unique) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTTP::Proxy) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(IO::Stty) for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl-Gnome2-Vte for package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch
---> Package ftp.x86_64 0:0.17-67.el7 will be installed
---> Package perl-Crypt-Rijndael.x86_64 0:1.12-1.el7 will be installed
---> Package perl-Expect.noarch 0:1.21-14.el7 will be installed
---> Package perl-IO-Tty.x86_64 0:1.10-11.el7 will be installed
---> Package perl-Net-ARP.x86_64 0:1.0.9-3.el7 will be installed
---> Package perl-Socket6.x86_64 0:0.23-15.el7 will be installed
---> Package perl-XML-Parser.x86_64 0:2.41-10.el7 will be installed
---> Package telnet.x86_64 1:0.17-64.el7 will be installed
---> Package vte.x86_64 0:0.28.2-10.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Gtk2::Unique)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl-Gnome2-Vte
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::TiedCommon)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(IO::Stty)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Gtk2::GladeXML)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(HTTP::Proxy)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Gtk2::Ex::Simple::List)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Crypt::Blowfish)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Gnome2::GConf)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Gtk2::AppIndicator)
Error: Package: asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch (/asbru-cm-5.0.0~rc4-1.noarch)
           Requires: perl(Gtk2::SourceView2)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I've found some installation instructions for pac on the centos forums, but they are quite complicated and require a lot of manual intervention. I guess we will be out of luck as there is numerous packages missing in the repos.
Maybe after we switch to Gtk3 things will get easier.

[gfrenoy]

Michael,

On Fedora 26 and 27, our packaging is working using the following instruction:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/asbru-cm/asbru-cm/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
sudo dnf install asbru-cm

If you are trying to use the packaging of the distribution itself, I guess you'll have to contact the distribution package ... We cannot help there.

And yes, focus should be set on Gtk3 ... Hopefully we can find some help to contribute to the porting efforts (see here).

[gfrenoy]

Mmm. Now that I read it again, I think I made a confusion between RHEL7/CentOS and Fedora.

So, clearly, RHEL7/CentOS is not supported today. I tried but failed so far to build the correct packages. And I do confirm that Fedora packages are not designed to work on RHEL7/CentOS.

So, into my eyes, this is a task for RHEL7/CentOS packagers.

Can someone take time to contact them and see if they can help ?

[gfrenoy]

Did someone get in touch with RHEL7/CentOS packagers ?

[cornfeedhobo]

@gfrenoy RHEL is missing needed dependencies. I found this to be the case with Suse as well. One would need to package these Perl dependencies as well. The official solution, otherwise, is to use the SCL repos. In Suse I build upon the devel:languages:perl repo so I don't have to deal with these dependencies.

[gfrenoy]

So it means we're on a dead end ? Any chance to get those dependencies in official repositories ?

It actually looks a bit like the same story as with Debian ; official packagers don't want to package legacy Gtk2 dependencies any more [see this discussion] so we ended up with hosting them on packagecloud.

Can we start with a short documentation on how you did ?

[gfrenoy]

Closed due to inactivity. Feel free to re-open if there's anything new...

[syco]

I landed here looking for opensuse.
Last version from git (a0470a8) works perfectly fine, I just had to install all dependencies manually, here's a what I had to do:

sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:languages:perl/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:perl.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install perl-Module-Install-Repository

sudo zypper -n install perl-Crypt-Blowfish perl-Crypt-CBC perl-Crypt-Rijndael perl-Expect perl-Glib-Object-Introspection perl-Gtk3 perl-Gtk3-SimpleList perl-IO-Stty perl-IO-Tty perl-Net-ARP perl-OSSP-uuid perl-Socket6 perl-XML-Parser perl-YAML typelib-1_0-GdkPixdata-2_0 typelib-1_0-Wnck-3_0

Maybe someone else will find this useful..

[cornfeedhobo]

I'm gonna patch up my asbru-cm package for suse today, in case anyone uses that, other than @syco and I.

Disclaimer: I'll be moving back to linux soon, but currently stuck on MacOS and not updating the package as often as I probably should. Just ping me on Freenode if you need an update.